We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. –
JOSEPH CAMPBELLWhen we talk about settling the world’s problems, we’re barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It’s a mess. It has always been a mess. We’re not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
More Joseph Campbell Quotes
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The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure– fearlessness and achievement.
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You have to learn to recognize your own depth.
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Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
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We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
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You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that’s waiting to be yours. Move, move, move.
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The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
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It’s only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
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The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.
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Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.
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Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
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All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.
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The purpose of the journey is compassion. When you have come past the pairs of opposites, you have reached compassion.
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People forget facts, but they remember stories.
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The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
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When you are on your path, and it is truly your path, doors will open for you where there were no doors for someone else.
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